Discover the films screening in May at the Alliance Française de Bangkok – with screenings of French films with English subtitles.

The Course of Life
Wednesday, May 8
FR | 2022 | Directed by Frédéric Sojcher | Fiction / Comedy-Drama

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, reunites with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. In an extraordinary masterclass, where the intimate rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie teaches Vincent and his students that the art of screenwriting is the art of living passionately.

Athleticus S3 part 3 and 4
Saturday, May 11
Nicolas Deveaux | 2021 | Animation for kids from 3 years old.

After the two first seasons devoted to athletics and winter sports, the crazy bestiary imagined by Nicolas Deveaux, migrates to town for a new burst of thirty episodes just as disheveled as the previous ones. Window cleaner, petanque, Jokari, Badminton, Hula Hoop, and etc.

The Squad
Saturday, May 11
FR | 2019 | Directed by Stéphanie Gillard | Documentary

Over the years, the Olympique Lyonnais women’s team has become one of the best soccer teams in the world. From training sessions to competitions, from doubts to victories, this film plunges for the first time into the daily life of these exceptional players. An invitation to take a new look at the place of women in sport: a universe where the values of respect and openness will be the pillars of the evolution towards equality.

THE THINGS OF LIFE
Wednesday, May 22
FR | 1970 | Directed by Claude Sautet | Classic

An ordinary accident on a country road, a car driving at excessive speed, rolls over several times… The victim is a forty-year-old architect, Pierre, well-to-do, separated from his wife Catherine, with a grown son and a mistress Helene. He is at the age where one asks oneself questions. Ejected from the car, lying in the grass of the meadow, half conscious but already dying without knowing it. Pierre relives a few episodes from his past, rediscovering the sweetness of the “things of life”, until the moment when, dreaming about his family, he sinks without recourse into death.

Funny Birds
Saturday, May 25
FR | 2021 | Directed by Charles Belin | Animation for kids from 5 years old

Ten and a half years-old, Ellie is entering secondary school in Saumur. Shy and fascinated by nature, she spends her time with books, especially ones on ornithology. Ellie draws the attention of Anna, the school’s librarian, a mysterious woman with whom she forms a mysterious bond. The day when Ellie must absolutely return a book to Anna, she finds the school library closed. Ellie decides to take it back to Anna’s home, a few miles from school, on an island on the Loire River. An island full of birds.

The (in)famous Youssef Salem
Saturday, May 25
FR | 2022 | Directed by Baya Kasmi | Comedy

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to fail his writing career. But the real trouble starts when his new novel meets with success, because Youssef can’t help but draw inspiration from his own environment, for better or worse. Now he has to do everything in his power to prevent his book from falling into the hands of his family.

Level Five
Wednesday, May 29
FR | 1996 | Directed by Chris Marker | Experimental / Classic film

A woman, a computer, an invisible interlocutor: this is the device from which Level Five is built. The woman “inherited” a task: to complete the writing of a video game dedicated to the Battle of Okinawa, a tragedy practically unknown in the West, but whose unfolding played a decisive role in the way the second world war ended.

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